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This is the kind of story I like to read–the kind of outcome, anyway. (Emphasis near the end mine.)

Woman puts alleged attacker in the hospital

8/11/2009 10:30:02 AM

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By Laura Gossman Horihan

Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN

A 24-year-old Rochester man is in the hospital after allegedly attempting to sexually assault a 19-year-old woman Tuesday morning.

According to police Lt. Dan Muyres, the woman was found standing in the intersection of First Avenue and First Street Southwest about 3 a.m., carrying a knife and asking for help.

She told police that a man she’d met in a downtown bar had tried to sexually assault her.

The woman said she used the bathroom in his apartment in the 100 block of First Avenue Southwest and that when she came out, he was naked and sitting on the bed. She said the man grabbed her from behind and put her in a choke hold.

She said she clubbed him on the head with a clothes iron, ran to the kitchen and grabbed a knife, Muyres said. When he came toward her, she swung the knife, cutting his arm and puncturing one of his lungs, Muyres said.

While police were interviewing the woman, the suspect came out of his apartment bloodied. He told police that he’d been attacked by three men.

The man was arrested and taken to Saint Marys Hospital.